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Satire:Literal Hell to be Offered This Spring Term -- "The class, 'Literal Hell', will examine perspectives of hell through immersion, aiming to providing students with a greater understanding of religious stories. Additionally, the course hopes to enable students to sympathize with characters such as Dante, Persephone, and others."

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Quote: "Critiquing, when it means careful reasoning, deliberate inquiry, trying to improve an outcome, and questioning taken-for-granted assumptions, is one of the hallmarks of a good education. But unchecked, the habit of critiquing can narrow our vision so that we only see what is wrong in the world and blind ourselves to what is right." -- Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College, in an email to current students

Satire:Harvard Dean Confesses Median Grade in SAT/UNSAT classes is SAT, Most Common Grade Also SAT -- "We’ve become a school where people believe they can do well in a class, regardless of how well their peers do. Where everyone graduates with a degree, regardless of the competition. Our job is not to make students feel good about themselves, it is to teach. If we’re not failing at least half of our students, then someone isn’t doing their job right."

Crimson:Title IX Complaints in Higher Education -- "The Crimson's searchable database details the outcomes of more than 7,500 Title IX complaints received and closed by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights between Jan. 1, 2002 and Sept. 22, 2014."

News-ish:How Harvard Became the Harvard of Football -- Admittedly, it's sub-par in quality of links here; it's only here because tomorrow is The Game, and, surprising no one, I have lot of Harvard spirit. #beatyale

Editorial:HPR | Let’s Talk: A Response to "Dear IOP" (Harvard-specific; a student member of the Institute of Politics with some real talk about how the organization is broken, why it's not worth giving up on, and what students can do to fix it. I'm not even IOP, and I found it fascinating.)

Blog:Dear Parent: About THAT kid… ("I know. You're worried. Every day, your child comes home with a story about THAT kid. The one who is always hitting shoving pinching scratching maybe even biting other children... You’re worried that THAT child is detracting from your child’s learning experience.")

News:FCC Asks AT&T for Details on Plans to Halt Fiber Expansion ("Oh, these plans to halt our fiber expansion? Uh...that's just a temporary measure until the FCC comes out and abolishes Net Neutrality. And that's gonna happen, right? Shame if all this fiber went to waste and didn't speed up anyone's internet...")

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Crimson-Ed:Letting Down TFs (In other news, the Harvard Teaching Campaign is moving to verify signers of their petition to add a UC referendum on section sizes, so that's promising.)

Crimson:Sexual Climate Survey Used by Harvard May Become National Model ("We think that a survey is critical to making progress, but we don’t think that one designed by the federal government, specifically the Department of Education, is going to be helpful. In fact, it could be quite misleading and not make progress, the kind of progress we want to make on this issue.")

Paper:JEBO | Prisoners and Their Dilemma (Two economists run the Prisoners' Dilemma experiment on actual prisoners, and demonstrate higher rates of cooperation than among control population college students.)

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Blog:Unequally Yoked | I've Written a Book! (Of interest to me, but perhaps not you: "If you're not Catholic or not practicing, I hope the analogies and connections that helped me might make Catholicism make a bit more aesthetic and logical sense. (Or at least, make it differently confusing).")

Quora:Why isn't logic taught to children at an early age? (An on-point rant; not mine. Begins "In America at least, school curriculums are determined by an ugly stew of tradition, funding, and special-interest-groups lobbying for various subjects to be included or excluded.")

News:Unicode Technical Report #51 (The Unicode Consortium published a report edited by Mark Davis of Google and Peter Edberg of Apple on a proposed technical implementation of choose-your-emoji's-skin-tone.)

Self:Democracy! (Part 2: The Democratizing) (Vote, Landry-Harris petition passes, now sign the petition to put the Harvard Teaching Campaign's smaller-sections question on the ballot as a referendum item.)

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Self:Democracy! (Vote, then sign the petition to put the Landry-Harris on the UC prez ballot.)